Great story, though, and nice to have a great ballplayer, who was a contemporary of once-famous and still somewhat known white baseball players such as Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, finally remembered.

My sense is that Donaldson faded into obscurity because he came from an era that was before Paige and Gibson, and before the most prominent years of the Negro Leagues. Still, he deserves to be remembered...

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